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  • Life in Bronze

    Lawrence M. Ludtke, Sculptor

    de Amy L. Bacon ...
    Series Libro 16 - Joe and Betty Moore Texas Art Series
    A disciple of Classical sculpture in a time of pervasive abstract modernism, Lawrence M. Ludtke (1929–2007) of Houston imbued his creations with a sense of movement and realism through his attention to detail, anatomy, and proportion.As a skilled athlete who played professional baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers organization, Ludtke brought to his art a fascination with musculature and motion that ... Leer más

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  • Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay

    Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival

    **New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012"Beautiful, haunted, evocative and so open to where memory takes you. I kept thinking that this is the book that I have waited for: where objects, and poetry intertwine. Just wonderful and completely sui generis." (Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes)**An unforgettable voyage across the reaches of America and the depths of memory, Red Brick, ... Leer más

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  • American Artists at the Paris Exposition of 1889

    Theodore Child explores Americans and American Art at the Paris World's Fair (Exposition Universelle) of 1889.Theodore Child (1846-1892) was a travel writer and discerning Art Critic of the late nineteenth century. ... Leer más

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  • The Underwater Museum

    The Submerged Sculptures of Jason deCaires Taylor

    A guide to the undersea sculptures of the award-winning British artist whose works "are both enchanting and ecologically meaningful" ( Discover).A one-of-a-kind blend of art, nature, and conservation, The Underwater Museum re-creates an awe-inspiring dive into the dazzling under-ocean sculpture parks of artist Jason deCaires Taylor. Taylor casts his life-size statues from a special kind of cement ... Leer más

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  • The Catskills

    Its History and How It Changed America

    The Catskills (“Cat Creek” in Dutch), America’s original frontier, northwest of New York City, with its seven hundred thousand acres of forest land preserve and its five counties—Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, Ulster, Schoharie; America’s first great vacationland; the subject of the nineteenth-century Hudson River School paintings that captured the almost godlike majesty of the mountains and ... Leer más

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  • Sarah M. Peale America's First Woman Artist

    de Joan King ...
    Practically every member of the Peale family contributed to America's early art and culture and Sarah Peale was the first woman artist to have made a living from her work. Having learned to paint from her renowned father she painted several famous people including Lafayette Andrew Jackson Thomas Hart Benson and Daniel Webster. Sarah was a passionate woman bent on being successful as an artist. She ... Leer más

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  • Disarmed

    The Story of the Venus de Milo

    In the spring of 1820, on the Aegean island of Melos, an unsuspecting farmer was digging for marble building blocks when he unearthed the statue that would come to be known as the Venus de Milo. From the moment of its discovery a battle for possession ensued and was won, eventually, by the French. Touted by her keepers in the Louvre as the great classical find of the era, the sculpture gained ... Leer más

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  • Ten Huts

    de Jill Sigman ...
    Described as an artist of "prodigious imagination and intelligence" by the New York Times, Jill Sigman makes art at the intersection of dance, visual art, and social practice. An artist's book that explores the ability of art to engage us and re-envision our environment, Ten Huts documents a series of site-specific huts that were hand built from found and repurposed materials ranging from the ... Leer más

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  • What Can and Can't Be Said

    Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South

    de Dell Upton ...
    An original study of monuments to the civil rights movement and African American history that have been erected in the U.S. South over the past three decades, this powerful work explores how commemorative structures have been used to assert the presence of black Americans in contemporary Southern society. The author cogently argues that these public memorials, ranging from the famous to the ... Leer más

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  • Voyages of the Self

    Pairs, Parallels, and Patterns in American Art and Literature

    de Barbara Novak ...
    Barbara Novak is one of America's premier art historians, the author of the seminal books American Painting of the Nineteenth Century and Nature and Culture, the latter of which was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Now, with Voyages of the Self, this esteemed critic completes the trilogy begun with the two ... Leer más

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  • Jackson Pollock

    Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) not only put American art on the map with his famous "drip paintings," he also served as an inspiration for the character of Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire—the role that made Marlon Brando famous. Like Brando, Pollock became an icon of rebellion in 1950s America, and the brooding, defiant persona captured in photographs of the artist ... Leer más

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  • Democratic Art

    The New Deal's Influence on American Culture

    Throughout the Great Recession American artists and public art endowments have had to fight for government support to keep themselves afloat. It wasn’t always this way. At its height in 1935, the New Deal devoted $27 million—roughly $461 million today—to supporting tens of thousands of needy artists, who used that support to create more than 100,000 works. Why did the government become so involved ... Leer más

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